New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1921, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870. - CONN. CO., FIGHTING COURT INJUNCTION, SAYS JITNEYS LOWER TROLLEY REVENUE Spokesman Declares In- come Is Lessened Eight To Ten Thousand Dol- lars A Day By Competi- tion Of Motor Busses Attorney Gen. Says “Veice of the People,” the Legis- lature, Decided Against Jitney Transportation in Favor of Trolleys. New Haven, Aug. 5.—A hearing on the application to modify or revoke the restraining order which Judge E. 8. Thomas issued last Saturday against the peace officers of the state to pre- vent their interference with jitneys ‘was begnn today before Judge Thom- as sitting at the courthouse here. At the outset there impended the uestion of a continuance of the case. rge D. Watrous, representing the Connecticut Co., and applicant for the modification of the order, started to sopen the case when Robert J. Wood- ruff representing the jitneymen, ask- ed if a motion had been filed with the court. Mr. Watrous admitted that there was motion in writing and Mr. Woodruff was about to ask for con- FUNMIEST STORIES OF DAY PRINTED BELOW About Grasshoppers Cem- mitting Suicide and the Up-to-Date Sleuth. Quebec, Aug. 5. — Hundreds of thousands of dead grasshoppers float- ed down the St. Lawrence river today and excited the curiosity of agricul- turists who could offer no plausible explanation. At Three Rivers the in- sects covered the river from shore to shore at one point. . New Yotk, Aug. 5.—New York agri- culturists advanced the suicide theory in connection with the discovery today of hundreds of thousands of dead grasshoppers floating down the St. Lawrence river. They explained that, like Napoleonic cavalry, these insects never turned back. Scientists believed that, having eaten everything behind them, the horde approached the river, failed to negotiate the broad jump and plunged ahead to their death. Springfield, Ill., Aug. 5.—Frank A. Minkler, whose letterhead shows him to be a deputy sheriff and auctioneer at Great Barrington, Mass., has writ- ten to Sheriff Mester asking if a re- ward has been offered for a fugitive governor of Illinois named Len Small, Mr. Mester said today. tinuance when the court said that as it. appeared that all parties in inter- est were present he saw no reason for &’ eontinuaxice. Officials Represented. ° Mr. Watrous then explained his ap- pearance in'the case. State's Attor- . Rey Alling of New Maven cpunty, an- other respondent, said that he had requested Mr. Watrous to represent him, and Prosecutor £. S. Pickett, of the common pleas coart, said he rep- < resented himself and Chief of Police Smith of New Haven, who also are restrained the order. :The 'Bridgeport jitney interests ‘were represehted by counsel, but Mr. 4 - Woodruft appeared as the spokesman. “Mr.- Watrous first presented the ) ¢ase of the trolley company, saying that its revenues were lessened from “efght to ten thousand dollars a day by the fitneys, and that it opposed the © jndiscriminate operation of other ve- hicles. The state’s attorney, he said, had no interest in the ‘trolleys and representation in his behalf was on the ground of protection of the pub- lic to be secured through the aid of the court. - ‘during Mr. Watrons argu- ment for modification of the restrain- ing order Mr. Woodruff interrupted saying that he could not understand "~ .n..whether Mr. Watrous was endeavor- ing to try out the whole case or just what was the contention he was mak- ing. He claimed again .that the mo- tion should have been filed. Attorney General Present. Attorney General Healy entered an appearance in behalf of the state and all its interests. Mr. Watrous went on to explain the losses claimed by the company while the order is in force, and said that (Continued on Seventeenth Page.) NEW HAVEN POLICE T~ ANOTHER RUM SCHOONER Prohibition Inspectors Learn of One Discharging Its Cargo Off Shores of New Brunswick. : Shediac, N. B., Aug. 5.—Prohibition inspectors learned today that a three- master craft unloaded contraband liquors 16 miles from here near Cape Bauld just before dawn last Sunday. Three motor boats chugged out to the schooner and were loaded with cases of cognac and West Indies rum, it was « sajd. The liquor was believed to have ~ been hidden in the woods fringing the shore. The name of the schooner was cov- ered with canvas and her identity was otherwise camouflaged. The inspectors said they believed her vargo of intox- icants came from St. Pierre, Miquelon. *. Govt. Awaits New Offer For Muscle Shoals Plant ‘Washington, Aug. 5.—A new offer to purchase the government nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala., for which Henry Ford has submitted pro- posals is expected by the government, Becretary Hoover said today, from a power company he did not name. The * secretary indicated the government's decision on the Muscle Shoals propo- sition was awaiting the arrival of the new offer. PLANS NEW BUILDING. Samuel Guasdof today announced his plans for building a two story structure at 150 West Main street at an estimated cost of $12,000. The first floor will be devoted to-garage purposes, according to his tentative , Plans, while the second floor will have space for three stores. v i o o The Great Barrington officer wrote that a man he had under surveillance resembled the Illinois governor for whom Sheriff Mester holds warrants for embezzlement and conspiracy to defraud the state treasury. Sheriff Mester replied that Governor Small still was in Illinois. Great Barrington, Mass., Aug. 5.— Deputy Sheriff Frank A. Minkler of this town, who notified Illinois author- itles that he had a man under sur- veillance, resembling Governor Small of Illinois, said today that the man had been in Great Barrington nearly three weeks. He had been watching the stranger for some time, he said, the circum- stances of his visit and his surround- ings here indicating to his mind that he was trying to keep under cover. When he saw Governor Small’s pic- ture in the newspapers he becare con- vinced that the man was Small and [immediately wrote the Illinois authori- ties. He had not received any reply to his letter today. BURGLARY REPORTED —— Thieves Get Large Amount of Men’s Wearing Apparel and About $10 in Money Last Night. Burglars paid a visit to the clothing store conducted by Joseph Caslowitz at 24 Lafayette street, last night, and stole a large amount of men’s wearing apparel besides about $10 from the cash register. The entrance was effected by a rear window. SUPERNUMERARY RESIGNS. Cornelius Cully, a member of the supernumerary police force, handed in his resignation today. Business rea- sons were given by the officer for his action, GET 55 GALLONS OF LIQUOR IN SLEEPING CAR BERTH Also Round Up Booze Laden Limousine in -Center of City — Occupants Are All Armed. New Haven, Aug. 5.—Police officers boarded a sleeping car attached to an early morning train from New York to Boston, over the New Haven railroad at the station here today and seized 55 gallons of alcohol which was in an upper berth. Two men in the lower They gave the berth were arrested. names of Alec Witkas of Hartford and Benjamin Gottliev of Worcester, Mass. The alcohol was in 11 five-gallon The men say they waked station with the containers and no one ap- The containers. through the Grand Central parently noticed their burden. train made its first stop in this city. Rum Runners Armed. A motorcycle officer had his atten- to a lim- ousine which had a flat tire and was drawn alongside of the curb at State A man who had tion drawn .this noon and Wall streets. been walking backward and forward left as the officer approached. A lit- tle later when the officer saw the man the latter made a hip-pocket motion. The officer seized the man’s wrist and held it until he found an automatic gun in the pocket. :Another man on the fruck was armed and both with the truck which had liquor on board were taken to police headquarters. The men were from Brooklyn. ‘When officers began examining the machine they found hidden compart- ments in which were cans of liquor the motércycle flicer said that he covered both men in gddition to those body of the car. found The in fore they could draw their guns. Disagrees With Treasurer Mellon—Thinks It Pos- sible To Reduce . Tax Levy By $500,000,000 Would Repeal Soda Water and Excess Profits Taxes —Farmes Oppose Latter Action. ‘Washington, Aug. 5.—To realize their expressed hope of reducing the nation’s tax bill by half a billion dol- lars republican leaders of the house appear on the basis of treasury estim- ates to be faced with the task of cut- ting three-quarters of a billion dollars from estimated government expendi- tures for this fiscal year or else a huge federal deficit next July 1. Secretary Mellon in a statement to the committee dealing with tax revi- sion, has warned that even if more than $250,000,000 *‘should be lopped off the estimated expenditures of $4,550,000,- 000, the tax yield could not safely be permitted to fall below $3,570,000,000, the estimated return under the existing law.”” Paper Savings “Folly” Coupled with this warning is the de- claration that ‘it would be ‘‘folly”” to reduce revenues without the assurance expenditure. Mr. Mellon added that in seeking to arrive at an estimate of the cash outgo for the year the treasury could not take into account ‘‘paper sav- ings or hope for reductions in expendi- tures which cannot reasonably be ex- pected to materialize.”’ Mondell’s Ideas Different In a statement published today, how- ever, Representative Mondell of Wyom- ing, the republican leader, declares that in his judgment it is entirely practical to reduce the total tax levy by $500,- 000,000 and still take care of the es- sential needs of the government. “‘I realize,”” he added, ‘‘that if all the bureaus, departments and agencies of the government expended the sums they have heretofore anticipated spend- ing, and .in addition to that we were (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) $318.15 IS NEEDED FOR MONTH’S QUOTA Tax Collector Predicts $100,000 for Month—First Week Expected to Exceed Estimated Amount. Only $318.15 remains to be paid to realize Tax Collecttor Loomis’ predic- tion that $100.000 will be received during the month of August. The total amount received in the first four days of the month, amounted to $99,- 681.85 at the close of business last night. Collections were coming in so fast during the latter part of July, especially the last business day of the month when over three-quarters of a million dollars were received on the one day, that the imeptus car- ried over into the first two days of August when nearly $92,004 Yere re- ceived. From that time collections have slowed down somewhat and are coming in a great deal more slowly now. x JEWEIRY STORE CLOSED Two Actions Are Brought Against Main Street Place By Hartford and Local Men. David Hirschfield, of Hartford, through Judge Solomon Elsner, has brought suit for $2,500 against Joseph Hirschfield and Henry H. Fried, of Hartford, proprietors of the Reed Jew- elry company with a local store at 238 Main street, and a place at 296 Asylum street, Hartford. Constable Fred ‘Winkle served papers on the proprie- tors and closed the local place. A keeper has been placed in charge of the Hartford store. The writ is returnable in the city court at Hartford on the first Monday in September. Sam W. Menus, Jacob Birnbaum and Samuel Levine, of this city, have brought action against the Reed Jewel- ry company for $800. The papers were served by Constable Fred Winkle and the writ is returnable in the city court on the fourth Monday in August. Falls Into Horse Stall, Man is Kicked to Death ‘New Haven, Aug. 5. — Mortality records here for several years have not contained one where a horse kicked a man to death. This was the fate which befell Edward Vizhiski during last night, in a barn. It is believed the man fell down a ladder and into a stall. GOVERNMENT RELIEF ORDERS ‘Washington, Aug. 5.—The state de- partment has instructed Evan Young, American commissioner at Riga te co- operate with the American relief asso- ciation in its efforts to assist American refugees reported to be on their way out of Washington. ON SPURGIN’S TRAIL. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 5—From authen- tic sources it was learned here today that a man answering the description of Warren C. Spurgin, missing Chicago banker, is in hiding near CHihuahua city. 3 of substantial additional reductions ll\ Thomas C. Carrigan, dean of the law \nhul of Catholic university of Am- NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, MINOR LEAGUES ARE CLOSED TO PLAYERS Farrell Declares Jury That Freed Sox Should Be Tried. Auburn, N. Y., Aug. 5.—The White Sox players involved in the baseball scandal in Chicago will not be permit- ted to join minor league clubs, J. H. Farrell, chairman of the national board of the national association, said today. ““The jury tells us that crookedness in sports is not a crime in Cook county, Illinois, in spite of confession of guilt,”” said Mr. Farrell! ‘The jury should now be placed on trial for libelling the moral atmosphere of the people of Cook county. The players will not be per- mitted to join minor league clubs.’” TRIES T0 KILL WIFE Waterbury Man Then Attempts Suicide ~—Condition of is Critical, Hospital Officials Say_ Victim ‘Waterbury, Aug. 5.—The death of Mrs. Emil Leisring, aged 62 years, a patient at St. Mary’s hospital, is feared as the outcome of injuries sustained Thursday night when she was attacked by her frenzied husband armed with a lather’s hatchet. The husband, 39 years old is held without bail perding the outcome of the woman’s condition. The accused was airaigned in city court today and remanded to his cell, where he has refused to eat or drink. Friends of the family claim the man became temporarily insane due to being out of work. Leisring is himself under the care of a physician due to cuts in- flicted in an attempt at suicide follow- ing the attack upon his wife. Arteries in his wrists and ankles were cut. Dean of Catholic U. Law School is Dead ‘Worcester, Mass,, Aug. 5. — Dr. erica in Washington, died last night in his Worcester home, after an ill- ness of a few months with throat trouble. He was a graduate of Ot- taws, took his law course in Boston university after which he was ap- pointed to his Washington position, nine years ago. During the war he served in the alien custodian depart- ment. LEAVES BULK OF ESTATE TO HUSBAND Mrs. Bertha Fenton Also Leaves Stock in Local Corporations to Grand- nieces—Husband ;Executor. The will of the late Bertha Fenton, who died July 12, was approved by Probate Judge Gaffney this morning. The will leaves two shares of capital stock of the Commercial Trust com- pany, to Barbara Curtin, and two shares of capital stock in the D. C, Judd company to Ruth Curtin. Both girls are daughters of Mrs. John Cur- tin, a niece of the deceased. To her husband, Henry S. Fenton, she leaves all the real estate to have and to hold with power to mortgage, sell and convey during his life. Upon his death the remainder ot the real estate, if ‘there is any, goes to a sis- ter, Mrs. Caroline Hurlbut, or in case of her death to Mrs. John Curtin. The balance of the estate she leaves to her husband unconditionally, to be his absolutely. The husband is ap- pointed and has been approved as ex- ecutor. WOMAN IS KILLED FLEEING TAXI-MAN Leaves Cab After Argument Over Fare And Falls on Third Rail in New York. New York, Aug. 5.—Katherine Ho- gan, 24, was electrocuted by the third rail in a Brooklyn subway today after dashing down the tracks away from a taxicab driver who had car- ried her and two companions to the station from Manhattan. 3 Her companions toia the police that the driver offered to carry them home without charge and that when he asked for $2.70 fare as they alighted near the subway station they ran, and two of them jumped down upon tha tracks. Two subway ecmployes pursued them, reaching the girls just in time to dodge a roaring express by stand- ing between pillars separating the tracks. When the cars had gone by Miss Hogan again ran away, and it was while trying to climb back -on the platform that she fell ta her death. ol The taxicab driver, arrested on a techunicel charge of homicide denied offering to convey the passengers for nothing. FOUR CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH IN FIRE THAT RAZES THREE N. Y. HOUSES Seven Other Persons Seri- ously Injured — Firemen Rescue 20 By Means of Ladders. New York, Aug. 5.—Four children were burned to death and seven other persons were seriously injured in an early morning fifire which swept three teanement houses in the Bronx this morning. The dead are Victoria Corsine, 14; Harry Corsine, 8; Edna Corsine, 10, and Wm. Corsine, 5, all children of Julio Corsine, who lived on the top floor of the tenement in which the fire started. Corsine escaped. Several Badly Burned. Andrew Taylor, his wife, Catherine, and their four children, who lived on the third floor of the same tenement. suffered severe burns. The youngest child, Herbert, is reported to be dying in a hospital from inhaled flflames. Rose Fitzpatrick, 13, who lived with her family on the fourth floor of this tenement, also was severely burned. Firemen Rescue People. The fire spread quickly from the tenement in which it started to two adjoining tenements, and when fire- inen reached the scene they found more than a score of panic-stricken women and children crowded before windows crying for aid. Aerial lad- ders were run up and firemen began bringing the scantily clad women and children down to safety. Escapes Cut Off. Twenty persons were rescued by means of ladders from the central one of the three buildings. The fire had started on the stairway between the second and third floors and spread swiftly up and back, cutting off access to the fire escapes, which were in the rear. About 50 families living in the other two buildings had time to make their way to the street before the fSames attacked their homes. The four Corsine children who lost their- lives were caught in their bed- rccm by falling roof timbers, while their parents made frantic efforts to reach them. Corsine, his wife Elsie, and two other children, Jennie and Julio, Jr., were carried down the lad- ders to safety. * THE WEATHER. —o— Hartford, Aug. 5.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair, warmer, tonight; Saturday unsettled; probably showers. ULSTERITES INSIST ON OWN PRIVILEGES ‘Will Accept No Overtures Lessening Powers of Northern Parliament— Cabinet Is Convened. London, Aug. 5 (By Associated Press.)—Another meeting of the Ul- ster cabinet has been called to discuss the Irish peace negotiations, it was announced today, although it is re- iterated in Belfast that no message has been received there from Eamon De Valera. It is added that no overtures will be entertained which diminish the powers of the northern parliament. Nonetheless the imperial govern- ment continues optimistic as to the outcome if it can get the opposing leaders together. While the Sinn Fein leaders are maintaining silence it is believed De Valera and his advisers favor a con- ference in London and will support, before the republican parliament, a proposal for such a conference. It is hoped in government circles here that the republican parliament will announce its willingness to open direct negotiations in London for the future government of southern Ire- land, while attempting through other sources to make an arrangement with Ulster. The Ulster cabinet meeting was called for this afternoon. EXPRESS SERVICE PLANNED Connecticut Company Expects To In- stitute Fast Service Between New Haven and Waterbury. ‘Waterbury, Aug. 5.—It became known here today that the Connecticut company is planning to operate express service between New Haven and Wa- terbury as a means of meeting inter- city jitney competition. Officials of the company made a test yesterday to de- termine the feasibility of such service, running a passenger car from New Ha- ven to Waterbury in 61 minutes, while the return trip was made in 59 min- utes. With running time fixed at one hour the trip each way would be made in 20 or 25 minutes less than at present. If the proposed service 1s established connection with impor- tant trains between Boston and New York will bs made in New Haven. ———Eee HELD AS $500,000 ROBBER. Omaha, Aug 5.—A man whose name was given as Harry Palmer, was held 1921. —EIGHTEEN PAGES HOUSE LEADER MONDELL DISAPPROVES PLAN TO TAX AUTOS AND TO JUMP POSTAL RATES e ———e e iHerald “Ads” Mean Better Business PRICE THREE CENTS RUMOR OF IRREGULARITIES IN METHOD BY WHICH CITY JOBS ARE GIVEN IS HEARD PAYROLL ROBBERS | it Bl fiET $.fi_fl£[!“ umT On:oForesman ;sAtcce::f Hold Up Paymaster and Guard at| ing ~Gratitudes From Shadyside, New Jersey Workmen : BANDITS ALSO LOOT TRAIN|Mayor and Other Officials: Are Familiar With Stories: and Are Making Every| Effort to Run Them to: Ground. Persistent, But Unverified Believed to Have Obtained About $50,000 When They Held Up Bal- timore and Ohio Train Near Beech- er City, IIL, Last Night. Hackensack, N. J., Aug. 5.—The county prosecutor's office was notified ioday that six armed bandits had s held up the paymaster of the Barrett| Charges that one or more foremen | Mfg. Co. at Shadyside about 11 (iR the employ of the department of ! o'clock and escaped with a payroll of |Public works are guilty-of acts that $40,000 to $50,000. are decidedly irregular if not ab- ! The paymaster, accompanied by an solutely crooked, continue to flow . armed guard of five men, Was travel_ | ;15 Gity hall despite the disinclina~’ ling in an automobile when the hold = up ocourred. tion of city officials to believe any such yarns. The bandits slowed up the car by| Just what and who and why and. throwing stones at it. Then theY| wherefore of the charges is not being leaped from the bushes and quickly(giyyigeq but it is learned on good! overpowered the guard. thority th: : Their next step was to cut all the |2Uthority that a certain foreman im wiring on the company’s automobile|the employ of the department is and to roll it into a ditch. Then, tak-|under suspicion of hiring men off ing the payroll they leaped into a|the street in preference to men en- large black touring car which had gag ’ been kept waiting with motor running edh.by Hhe atiof Buteeny Rwvitie and diseappeared in the direction of | ™en hired by the bureau from sev- Newark. eral hours to one day, and then letw:. The Barrett Cb., employing several | ting them go. " i Guard. thousand men, has its plant in the Shadyside section of Edgewater. Pay- master and his guard had motored to an out of town bank for the weekly payroll and were returning to the factory when they were held up. Train Also Held Up. Greenville, IIl., Aug. 5. —Fifty thousand dollars was believed to have been obtained by two bandits - who boarded a Baltimore and Ohio pas- senger train at. Beecher City . last night, held up the express messenger and escaped at Altamont with all the sealel express packages. ROOSEVELT IS BLAMED - FOR ENDING JAP WAR Baron Korff Says it Saved Japan From Collapse, Started Imperialism. ‘Wiiliamstown, Mass., Aug. 5—A Russian view of Theodore Roosevelt's successful efforts to end the Russo- Japanese war was given to the in- stitute of politics today by Baron Sergius A. Korff former depuly governor general of Finland. ‘Without doubting Roosevelt's sin- cerity, he said “we can, however, at present question his wisdom in forc- ing this peace on Russia. Not that we could ekpect a victory or military achievements, but Japan might have learned a lesson which would havel «changed much of the succeeding; events through the world * * * Japan at that moment was at the end of her tether. Roosevelt in other words saved Japan from an economic col- lapse that might have called for -constitutional reforms in Japan also, and only th latter could be a reliable guarantee against the developments of imperialism in the Pacific.” Baron Korff’'s subject was Russo- Japanese relations, which he de- scribed as of comparatively recent origin but, until lately, exceedingly militant. Touching the events lead- ing to war between the two powers he said: “Bad feeling between the two na- tions was intensified by the determin- ation of some Russian adventurers, aided and abetted by the Czar, to obtain concessions in Korea. The psychology of the Czar in this case is explained by his absolute contempt of Japan on the one hand, and on the other hand by his conceit and «conviction that he could do no wrong. This was one of the most pernicious of the influences of the Kaiser which told in this case very strongly. Wilhelm was -consciously and cleverly urging the Czar on such to a conflict upholding his conviction of superiority over (Continued on Third Page.) U. S. Rubber Co. Head Victim of Stroke Bristol, R. I.. Aug. 5.—Col. Samuel P. Colt, chairman of the board of di- rectors and former president of the U, S. Rubber Co., suffered a paralytic shock early today at his summer home. Physicians said his condition was criti- cal. Col. Colt, who is 69 years of age, had been ill after a general nervous Rumors of Graft. These men are whispering vague . intimations, which those who. kear them are loth to believe, that the said foreman is extracting one and two dollars a week from men who are kept on the job. S ‘Whole Gang Complains. A week ago, according - #0 the dtory, nine or' 10 Italian laborers were hired by the labor bureau on the requisition of a certain' city foreman. This foreman is said to be retaining his ' regular gang every ‘week- instead changing €0 TEive ‘some Wpork to- e - number of unemployed. The nine or 10 Ttaliams all cinié back to City Hall within 24 houfs With Somplaints that they had been distharged. 'They further. state that no.other men were laid off when théy were hired. Sev- eral of these Italians have intimated it is said, that the foreman was re- ceiving pay from a number of aliens lof another race who were hired off the street some. time ago. It im thought by some that this may be mere jealousy on the part of the dis- charged Italians. The board of pub- lic works explains that a few of the older employes have to be. retained because of their familiarity with city work. 4 No Evidence of Graft. That men are being hired off the street jn direct vialation of the or- ders of Mayor Curtis that no work bs given men who have not lived in the city long enough to be a bona fide resi- dents, and then only through the city labor bureau, established for that purpose, there seems to be little doubt. One individual, who sayvs he has been on a street job for the past two months, claims there ara eight or 10 others, none of whom are citi~ zens or bona fide residents on the same gang now. He says there were 14 some time ago, but several left for other jobs. When asked if he or any of the others were paying for their jobs, he replied that he was not and he did not know of any who were. He admitted that he and his fellow countrymen were hired by the job foreman, to whom they went when they were refused work at city hall. . Mayor Orders ‘nvestigation. “I have no personal knowledge of anything crooked going on in the de- partment, but have heard the com- plaints and if there is anything wrong I would like to see the proofs’ said Mayor Curtis. Mayor Curtis admitted that he has heard & number of com- plaints and has asked the complain- ents to submit some proof, promising immediate action as soon as proots are submitted. Recently he had City Engineer J. D. Willlams and Super- intendent of Streets Cadwell in con- ference and instructed these men to do what they could to investigate the charges. “I hope we have no one doing any- thing crooked,” saia the mayor, “but if we find we have, just as soon as we get proof, out they go.” At the labor buresu it was stated that nothing was known about it, ex- cept that occasionally Italians came back and said they were discharged after working but a few hours or a whola day. Wil Sift Complaints. City officials are determined to sift the charges to the bottom and some interesting facts may come to light or some ugly charges be disproven before the investigation ends. A few years ago there were rumors breakdown since June when he came back from his camp at Mount Katahd- hin, Me. $60,000 FOR HIGHWAYS. Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 5.—Gov- ernor Hyde has signed a bill passed here today by federal officers in con- nection with the theft in Toledo last winter of $500,000 worth of Liberty and other government bonds. by a special session of the state leg- islature providing for a state bond issue of $60,000,000 for the improve- ment of, Missouri highways, it was anpounced today. about graft in the street department. A foreman was selling dirt to peopla who wanted it in their lots. One woman offered him $2 and he de- manded $10. She complained to the mayor and the foreman was dis- charged. Teamsters have been dis- charged in the history of the city for : stunts very much similar. Incompetents Dropped. It is said that one of the fauuq4 59 (Continued Sixteenth Page). men o om Sreater